Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Knit One Below - or Inside-Outside Scarf

Once again I feel overwhelmed with the amount of available knitting patterns. It's starting to get on my nerves. I see one thing I really like, and before I can even think of casting on for that, there's already something else catching my eyes. I blame ravelry, or should I blame all those prolific knitters out there? My head is spinning, and it needs to STOP! Should I bury my head in the sand? I don't know why I even bother buying more knitting magazines or books, because there's plenty free stuff out there. Anyway, one example of free stuff it this Inside-Outside scarf.

Last time at my LYS this book caught my eyes. This is a new (to me) technique and I find it very interesting and fun to knit. With this technique even I can make color work projects, without the infuriating muddle of strands, and without tears.

needle: 6mm DP, important to use DP needles with this technique (or circs)

size after blocking: 7" x 90", the edges curled terrible, but blocking took care of that

start-finish: Jan. 22-24 (I was so obsessed, that it almost flew off my needles)

I even find the wrong side attractive. The fun here is, that you can choose different weight yarns, and it still looks good, but you don't have to. Katia Mexico is slightly thinner as Gedifra Fashion Trend, but not very much noticeable. I'd like to try totally different yarns together some time. The edges are not very pretty, don't know if it's just me. I'd love to knit another scarf, but I think I'll try some socks first, or something else from the book, but a small project for sure. (I just finished a second sweater for Hannah, pictures comming soon).

PS: My dogs like oranges. Whenever I want to eat ONE orange, I have to peel TWO oranges. Just saying.

LOL! My two are the same with pretty much anything anyone is eating. They are like two vultures. I eat bagels with peanut butter for breakfast a lot, and I never get one to myself. They love "peanut bubber", and I always have to share, as I did this morning!

My dog likes oranges too. My husband thinks he's the only one, LOL.The scarf (particularly the backside) looks like a tuck stitch I can do on my knitting machine, now I'll have to check out the pattern, then see if I have any suitable yarn....I too am overwhelmed with patterns that I want to make!!

I saw that scarf the other day. The technique is interesting.As for too many things to knit, I'm with you. Ravelry is a real time drain. Sooo many projects, so little time. I hould spend half the time knitting instead og surfing Ravelry.Our goldens love oranges, apples, broccoli, carrots, lettuce.........any time I cut a saad, you would think I was operating a butcher shop. They would rather have fruits and veggies than meat.

Totally agree. My Rav queue is waaay out of control. I've tamed it somewhat by at least putting things in categories but still it is huge and ever growing. I now allow myself to look at the new patterns on Rav only once a week. I've stopped looking at the rss feeds of friends activities and projects altogether it's just waaay to tempting.

Sometimes I wanna cry out of shear frustration over which of the dozen or so patterns I finally was able to whittle away from the ever growing list of patterns to make!

LOl I too was smitten by this Knit one below....the book should be here any day.

I agree with you that there are too many nice patterns available on the internet. And with all those lovely free patterns we never need to buy books anymore.

I love the scarf you made.

Funny your dogs like oranges. I do know that Ysja likes a piece of apple but I never tried an orange. My father's dog (the one he owned before the one he now owns) also loved fruit. And the dogs I owned with my ex-husband always tried to eat a lot of prumes which fell of the tree in the garden. You probably can imagine what effect it had on their digestion.....

I love your scarf, I was looking for a pattern to use two variegated balls of wool, I bought one yesterday and there was your great scarf today!! Thank you for the link!!Sam and Biko are very funny!! The Labradors don't like orange but they pretty much want anything Humans are eating, so they HAVE to have some!!

I know what you mean about overload on all the patterns, books, magazines. It does become overwhelming. I love the scarf. I think I will have to get that book. See what I mean? Milo loves carrots. Whenever I have carrots, I have to make sure there is enough for Milo.

Well - I've never heard of that book or that method of knitting - so even with all the pattern choices out there, I still learn new things on your blog! The scarf has such firey colors - it is beautiful!

Talk about a post that is pure visual delight. Love seeing the oranges. The scarf and hat are Beauties and thank you for the link!As for those orange loving dogfaced Sweeties, as always, I'm completely charmed... and smitten.

The colors of this scarf are absolutely gorgeous! So rich and vibrant! And a HUGE thank-you for sharing the link to the pattern! I think I may try it with some of my handspun. I love the opportunity to try a new technique and see how badly I can screw it up! LOL!!

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I live in Canada now, but I'm originally from Austria.
My White Shepherd Happy, and Denny the mutt, are my constant companions. Maggie is my sons dog, but she's with me most of the day. I have two grown kids too ;o) by the way.